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object:1.whitman - Whoever You Are, Holding Me Now In Hand
author class:Walt Whitman
subject class:Poetry
book class:Whitman - Poems
class:chapter


WHOEVER you are, holding me now in hand,
Without one thing, all will be useless,
I give you fair warning, before you attempt me further,
I am not what you supposed, but far different.

Who is he that would become my follower?
Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?

The way is suspiciousthe result uncertain, perhaps destructive;
You would have to give up all elseI alone would expect to be your
    God, sole and exclusive,
Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,
The whole past theory of your life, and all conformity to the lives
    around you, would have to be abandon'd;          


Therefore release me now, before troubling yourself any furtherLet
    go your hand from my shoulders,
Put me down, and depart on your way.

Or else, by stealth, in some wood, for trial,
Or back of a rock, in the open air,
(For in any roof'd room of a house I emerge notnor in company,
And in libraries I lie as one dumb, a gawk, or unborn, or dead,)
But just possibly with you on a high hillfirst watching lest any
    person, for miles around, approach unawares,
Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea, or
    some quiet island,
Here to put your lips upon mine I permit you,
With the comrade's long-dwelling kiss, or the new husband's kiss,


For I am the new husband, and I am the comrade.

Or, if you will, thrusting me beneath your clothing,
Where I may feel the throbs of your heart, or rest upon your hip,
Carry me when you go forth over land or sea;
For thus, merely touching you, is enoughis best,
And thus, touching you, would I silently sleep and be carried
    eternally.

But these leaves conning, you con at peril,
For these leaves, and me, you will not understand,
They will elude you at first, and still more afterwardI will
    certainly elude you,
Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me,
    behold!                          


Already you see I have escaped from you.

For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this
    book,
Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it,
Nor do those know me best who admire me, and vauntingly praise me,
Nor will the candidates for my love, (unless at most a very few,)
    prove victorious,
Nor will my poems do good onlythey will do just as much evil,
    perhaps more;
For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and
    not hitthat which I hinted at;
Therefore release me, and depart on your way.






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